Beyond the Matrix of Language

Dear Living Dark reader,

Those of us who write about writing and spirituality, language and waking up, have such an energetic paradox on our hands. It comes to the fore in things like Kenneth S. Leong’s insightful observations in The Zen Teachings of Jesus about the intrinsic relationship between Zen, art, and creativity, and about Zen’s concomitant “right-brain orientation.” Art, says Leong, is ultimately nonverbal and right-brained because it is ultimately not about the abstractness of thoughts...